Why the future is brighter than you think

If you’ve spent any time on social media lately - or, heaven forbid, watched the evening news - you’d be forgiven for thinking we’re all living through a slow-motion car crash. The narrative is always the same. Everything is broken, the planet is finished and the 21st century is just a long, slide into the abyss.

But as Dr. Madsen Pirie argues in his latest book, The Optimistic Outlook, this age of decay narrative is s flat-out wrong.

Writing in City AM this morning, Madsen makes the case that we are actually standing on the threshold of the most creative and constructive period in human history.